Nerd Out

Scott Hardie | August 1, 2006
How nerdy are you? I'm only a 28. I don't know whether to be happy or disappointed.

Scott Horowitz | August 1, 2006
80%, w00t

Michael Paul Cote | August 1, 2006
I'm a 14. Guess I spend too much time on my computer actually working.

Jeremiah Poisson | August 1, 2006
56%... I'm right in the middle. I could go either way :)

John E Gunter | August 1, 2006
I'm like Miah, I could go either way, 52% though I lean more than him in one direction! LOL!

Denise Sawicki | August 1, 2006
71%. I'm not sure why. I'm not smart about computers. :P Maybe they automatically rank higher for females.

Lori Lancaster | August 1, 2006
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Erik Bates | August 1, 2006
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Denise Sawicki | August 1, 2006
You're right, no question about gender, just age. I guess I scored high because I go to bed by 10 every night including Friday, among other things :P.

Scott Hardie | August 1, 2006
Hehe, I use telnet daily. But I hang out with friends on Friday nights and I don't know my periodic table (three questions on that alone), so I guess that makes me whatever a nerd is not.

Amy Austin | August 1, 2006
"Lightly nerdy" at 45.

Jackie Mason | August 1, 2006
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Kris Weberg | August 2, 2006
90%, Supreme Nerd. I always did test well...

Aaron Shurtleff | August 2, 2006
How in HELL did I score 97%?!?! I am NOT a SUPREME NERD GOD!!! I think the program failed. :( I don't even LIKE computers!!!!

heh. John Gunter and Jeremiah Poisson both said they could go either way. heh heh.

John E Gunter | August 2, 2006
Don't worry about it Aaron, even though you're a self-proclaimed Luddite, you're still top nerd to me!

Dave Stoppenhagen | August 2, 2006
35% I rank right there w/ you Jackie.

Lori Lancaster | August 2, 2006
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Aaron Shurtleff | August 3, 2006
No, I don't! :P And who can't name the elements? That's a gimme question! ;)

Scott Hardie | August 3, 2006
In high school, I remember spending long hours staring at the giant periodic table on the wall of one classroom, because as boring as it was, it was downright thrilling compared to the lectures I had to sit through. But I happened to look at one online a few weeks ago and was surprised to realize: I don't know a goddamn thing about the elements. I recognized a half-dozen, tops. Maybe I should have paid more attention in class. Then again, in all these years since high school, the only application for that knowledge has been a nerd test, so maybe not.

Jackie Mason | August 3, 2006
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David Mitzman | August 4, 2006
Wooohooo. I got a 96.

Jackie Mason | August 4, 2006
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David Mitzman | August 4, 2006
James Clerk Maxwell is the first one (but I got that one wrong).
Isaac Newton is the second. That one I knew.

Scott Hardie | August 4, 2006
Very true, Jackie.

Wikipedia has an extensive breakdown of the differences between nerds, geeks, and dorks – and wow, do I love the irony of that.

Aaron Shurtleff | August 4, 2006
Yay! I'm not the number one nerd! I happily pass on the crown and sceptre! :)

John E Gunter | August 4, 2006
You're still number one to me Aaron! LOL!

Aaron Shurtleff | August 4, 2006
;P And I think of you as number 2, ya jerk! ;P

Jackie Mason | August 4, 2006
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Kris Weberg | August 5, 2006
I...actually recgnized Maxwell, from an old physics book I bought years back.

*cries*

Amy Austin | August 5, 2006
I got both portraits right, so... either my computer factor isn't "nerdy" enough or I suck at remembering my periodic table. ;-p

Jackie Mason | August 5, 2006
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Scott Hardie | August 7, 2006
And the fact that we're debating it, what does that make us? :-) I keep wondering, if nerds are smart and don't yearn for acceptance, and geeks are smart and do yearn for acceptance, and dorks are not smart and do yearn for acceptance, what group out there is not smart and does not yearn for acceptance? Those are a people without hope.

Aaron Shurtleff | August 7, 2006
Isn't that goths? :) jk

John E Gunter | August 7, 2006
Come on Aaron, you know Goths are counter-culture! You know, so counter-culture till they became their own culture! LOL!

Lori Lancaster | August 7, 2006
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Amy Austin | August 7, 2006
Heheh... I'm glad *you* said it, Aaron -- I wasn't going to! ;-D

But seriously... my step-sister was pre-"Goth" growing up -- and *very* anti-social -- but I know for a fact that she was/is also very smart. Just really weird.

Aaron Shurtleff | August 7, 2006
Not necessarily, Lori. Some of those folks you describe could be considered emo! ;) Not that I am totally able to differentiate the two. I think it's amount of depressing black. Plus I think goth kids have more of the "vampiric" vibe. But I don't know about those kids these days!

Lori Lancaster | August 7, 2006
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Jackie Mason | August 7, 2006
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Scott Hardie | August 8, 2006
You two are still ahead of Wikipedia on that one.

Good call about goths, Aaron. I'm tempted to say they're smart, which would make them a kind of geek (obsessed with gothic aesthetics instead of, say, Star Trek), but I didn't get to know the ones in my school very well, so I can't say.

Jackie Mason | August 8, 2006
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Kris Weberg | August 8, 2006
I'd say that most goths are dorks. They're usually not that knowledgeable about the literary genres from which they almost exclusively draw their iconography, they seem to be unaware that by truncating "Gothic" they've merely named themselves after a very un-"gothic" Teutonic barbarian tribe, and last but not least the music and art they produce is painfully limited in scope and subject matter.

Dorks, not geeks. Trust me, dorks can clump.